On December 30th we played KXCI’s Top 100 albums of 2016. This list was compiled from ALL the KXCI playlists for every show during 2016. Therefore this list represents all the DJ’s and their collective favorite new releases, as they actually played them throughout the year.
Looking forward to a great year of music in 2017!
Here are links to the day’s playlists for: YMB, MMM, AMM, THS and the whole list.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1 | Various | Day Of The Dead | 4AD |
| 2 | XIXA | Bloodline | Barbes |
| 3 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | XL Recordings |
| 4 | Ray LaMontagne | Ouroboros | RCA |
| 5 | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | A Man Alive | Ribbon Music |
| 6 | Dr. Dog | The Psychedelic Swamp | Anti- |
| 7 | Fruit Bats | Absolute Loser | Easy Sound |
| 8 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Soulrocker | Fantasy |
| 9 | Andrew Bird | Are You Serious | Concord Loma Vista |
| 10 | Santigold | 99 Cents | Atlantic Records |
| 11 | case/lang/veirs | case/lang/veirs | Anti- |
| 12 | The Kills | Ash & Ice | Domino |
| 13 | Paul Simon | Stranger To Stranger | Concord Records |
| 14 | Wilco | Schmilco | Anti- |
| 15 | Car Seat Headrest | Teens of Denial | Matador |
| 16 | David Bowie | Blackstar | Columbia |
| 17 | Charles Bradley | Changes | Daptone Records |
| 18 | Sturgill Simpson | A Sailor’s Guide to Earth | Atlantic Records |
| 19 | Jillian and the Giants | Mr. Airplane | Jillian and the Giants Music |
| 20 | Iggy Pop | Post Pop Depression | Loma Vista |
| 21 | Loretta Lynn | Full Circle | Legacy Recordings |
| 22 | Laura and the Killed Men | Everchanging Trail | Prophette |
| 23 | Tacocat | Lost Time | Hardly Art |
| 24 | Drive-By Truckers | American Band | ATO Records (AT0) |
| 25 | PJ Harvey | The Hope Six Demolition Project | Island Records / Caroline |
| 26 | Grant-Lee Phillips | The Narrows | Yep Roc |
| 27 | The Lemon Drop Gang | I’m Not The One | Lemon Drop Music |
| 28 | Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate | Polydor Ltd. |
| 29 | Cass McCombs | Mangy Love | Anti/Epitaph |
| 30 | Various (Los Lobos, etc.) | Quiero Creedence | Concord Picante Records |
| 31 | Pipelights | 518 | Pipelights |
| 32 | Yeasayer | Amen & Goodbye | Mute |
| 33 | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros | Person A | Community Music |
| 34 | Beth Orton | Kidsticks | Anti- |
| 35 | HINDS | Leave Me Alone | Mom + Pop |
| 36 | Regina Spektor | Remember Us To Life | Sire |
| 37 | Ziggy Marley | Ziggy Marley | Tuff Gong |
| 38 | Katie Haverly | Aviary | Katie Haverly |
| 39 | Leonard Cohen | You Want it Darker | Columbia |
| 40 | Margaret Glaspy | Emotions and Math | ATO Records |
| 41 | Shearwater | Jet Plane and Oxbow | Sub Pop Records |
| 42 | The Head and the Heart | Signs of Light | Warner Bros. |
| 43 | Carl Broemel | 4th of July | Thirty Tigers |
| 44 | Orkesta Mendoza | ¡Vamos a Guarachar! | Glitterbeat Records |
| 45 | Cage The Elephant | Tell Me I’m Pretty | RCA |
| 46 | Quilt | Plaza | Mexican Summer |
| 47 | The Monkees | Good Times! | Rhino |
| 48 | Blind Pilot | And Then Like Lions | ATO Records |
| 49 | Norah Jones | Day Breaks | Blue Note |
| 50 | Parquet Courts | Human Performance | Rough Trade |
| 51 | Marlon Williams | Marlon Williams | Dead Oceans |
| 52 | Band of Horses | Why Are You OK | Interscope |
| 53 | Kelley Stoltz | In Triangle Time | Castle Face |
| 54 | Mavis Staples | Livin’ on a High Note | Anti- |
| 55 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Skeleton Tree | Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt |
| 56 | Okkervil River | Away | ATO Records |
| 57 | Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop | Love Letter for Fire | Sub Pop |
| 58 | Shovels & Rope | Little Seeds | New West |
| 59 | Mexrrissey | No Manchester | Nacional |
| 60 | Bob Weir | Blue Mountain | Columbia/Legacy |
| 61 | Hiss Golden Messenger | Heart Like a Levee | Merge Records |
| 62 | Damien Jurado | Visions of Us on the Land | Secretly Canadian |
| 63 | Fitz & The Tantrums | Fitz & The Tantrums | Elektra Records |
| 64 | Grimes | Art Angels | 4AD |
| 65 | Steve Gunn | Eyes On The Lines | Matador |
| 66 | The Felice Brothers | Life in the Dark | Yep Roc |
| 67 | The Mission Creeps | Fright Night Creep Out! | Refractory Records |
| 68 | Margo Price | Midwest Farmer’s Daughter | Thirdman |
| 69 | Ohioan | Empty / Every Mt | Gold Robot |
| 70 | Shura | Nothing’s Real | Interscope |
| 71 | Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Any Way You Love, | Silver Arrow Records |
| 72 | Jim James | Eternally Even | ATO Records |
| 73 | Nahko and Medicine for the People | Hoka | sideonedummy |
| 74 | Angel Olsen | My Woman | Jagjaguwar |
| 75 | Blood Orange | Freetown Sound | Domino Recording Co |
| 76 | Eric Bachmann | Eric Bachmann | Merge Records |
| 77 | Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue | Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue | Electro-Fi Records |
| 78 | John Doe | The Westerner | Cool Rock Records |
| 79 | Lake Street Dive | Side Pony | Nonesuch |
| 80 | M. Ward | More Rain | Merge |
| 81 | Things That Aren’t Words | Remember the Details | Things That Aren’t Words |
| 82 | Deep Sea Diver | Secrets | High Beam |
| 83 | Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam | I Had a Dream That You Were Mine | Glassnote |
| 84 | Richard Ashcroft | These People | Harvest Records |
| 85 | The Soul of John Black | Early in the Moanin’ | Cadazra |
| 86 | Eric Krasno | Blood from Stone | Feel Records |
| 87 | Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light | Barsuk Records |
| 88 | The Avalanches | Wildflower | XL Recordings |
| 89 | Alejandro Escovedo | Burn Something Beautiful | Fantasy/Concord |
| 90 | Deerhoof | The Magic | Polyvinyl Records |
| 91 | Lee Harvey Osmond | Beautiful Scars | Latent Records |
| 92 | Violent Femmes | We Can Do Anything | [PIAS] |
| 93 | Animal Collective | Painting With | Domino Recording Co |
| 94 | Dinosaur Jr. | Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | Jagjaguwar / Hostess |
| 95 | Lucinda Williams | The Ghosts of Highway 20 | Highway 20 Records |
| 96 | Rogue Wave | Delusions of Grand Fur | Easy Sound |
| 97 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Let Me Get By | Concord Music Group |
| 98 | The Lumineers | Cleopatra | Dualtone |
| 99 | White Denim | Stiff | Downtown Records |
| 100 tie | Bombino | Azel | Partisan Records |
| 100 tie | Charlie Faye & the Fayettes | Charlie Faye & The Fayettes | Bigger Better More Records |
| 100 tie | Willie Nelson | For the Good Times: Trib. to Ray Price | Legacy |
